Tag: robotics

Audio feedback from your robot

Intro

After our previous post where Bence explained that roboticists should be careful doing scary stuff with their robot, I thought I need to do some with mine to troll ourselves. So why shouldn’t my robot sound like this when it is moving:

Seriously. Don’t we have enough people already freaking out due to the recent years’ military adoption of drone technology?

Your work is good. Amazing. The best animated dolls ever. You have more experience in robotics than I do. But this is not the way to present your work, no matter what! The shortest line that can be misunderstood when cut in the proper way will be the one circulated around. The joke was awkward even for a roboticist.

For a few minutes of fame you just made yourself and the rest of us look like irresponsible crazy scientists. It doesn’t even do you good as you scared so many people and fuelled endless conspiracy/robot-takeover/singularity theories that tips the acceptance of robots all the way to the negative scale.

We should be concentrating on making people’s lives easier, safer, more meaningful, more pleasant, whatever that is for good, not freaking them out with human-looking dolls talking BS!

Then there are already some famous & smart people who are half-educated on recent AI/Robotics talk fearful nonsense, such as Elon Musk, Steve Wozniak, Stephen Hawking, Bill Gates and others. Do you want to join that club?

This is an Arduino like board with Arm processor. It has the same kind of developing environment as for the Arduino, for Tiva C it’s called Energia. For more deep level development, there is also Code Composer Studio (CCS) or Keil IDE .

I’m a big fan of online courses, especially the ones that feature good professors with valuable professional and teaching experience. It feels like you are at the university again, but from the comfort (or discomfort) of your chair at home.

I have recently completed “Image and video processing: From Mars to Hollywood with a stop at the hospital” by Guillermo Sapiro.